Twinsie Tuesday: Nail Polish Collection

Hello everyone. I've been looking forward to this post for awhile but it's not going to turn out how I wanted it to be. This week the Twinsies are sharing our nail polish collection.

The majority of my collection has been wrapped up in paper and plastic since December. That makes me so sad because I want to organize my collection but can't do so at the moment until we move to our new place next month. So today I won't go into details about my collection but will share two pictures of how I move my collection.

 The first picture is polish I left with my "sister-in-law" when we moved to Florida in June of last year. The picture is before and after I opened them. It honestly felt like Christmas unwrapping them all. Would it be silly for me to say I missed them? I was going to have her ship them to me once I was settled but things didn't go as planned. Which is why in the second picture (below) all my polishes are wrapped, packed in tight burritos and stuffed in bags to move back to the Midwest.

While in Florida, I wrote every polish (and swatched) in a notebook sorted by brand. When I packed them up, I sorted them by brand and wrote numbers on each bag. So if I'm looking for China Glaze For Audrey, I check my notebook which tells me what bag to look in. If I have to pack up my polish again like this I think I may have to take extra time and write each name on the individual "burrito".

Now to throw in some numbers. Altogether I think I have about 350 polishes. I shipped (through a moving company) 30 bags from Florida, 26 small ones and 4 large ones. None of my polishes arrived broken and that was my biggest fear. Well that and losing all of them. I bought 20 polishes in the car with me. Can you believe my boyfriend told me I could only choose 10? I had about 70 polishes left at my "SIL's" house. I think I have about 20 random polishes in storage. I can't wait to get them completely organized. I have an idea of how I want to organize them but I'm sure I'll get some great ideas from my Twinsies. Be sure to check out the other Twinsies' collections.

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace
Anna at Going to the Showing

Casey at CaseyLane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Heather at Peace, Love, & Polish

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Rachel at Top Coat It

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Traci at DrinkCitra

NOTD: Teal Nail Project

So today is October 16 and that means it is National Feral Cat Day. (to be honest, i didn't know anything about this until last night on twitter or tumblr.) Find out more about Teal Nail project and National Feral Cat Day

So there was no question of what color i should paint my nails today. The only problem was deciding what shade of teal I wanted to use. That turned into me wanting to do a whole post dedicated to the teals I own, so here it is. My teal mani and all the teal polishes I currently own.
I decided on WnW Teal of Fortune and SC Nail Junkie. On the accent nail I attempted to do a gradient with a cosmetic sponge. It appears more teal in person.


On the other hand, I decided to just use the rest of the teals and do an "ombre" affect. Starting from the pinky is CG Shower Together, SC Love Nails, Cherimoya Sanctuary over SC Mint Apple and CG For Audrey.






This random nail was SC Mint Apple before I used the Cherimoya crackle. I felt like this shade fits better in the green family. It was before clean up and please excuse the dry hands.


When I get the rest of my polish collection sent from my dad's I'll update if I have any other teals.

Do you own a lot of teal polish? Would you be interested in seeing more posts like this?